
Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Stone of remembrance
- District
- Ross And Cromarty
- Town
- Dingwall
- County
- Highland
- Country
- Scotland
- Commemoration
- VC or GC Recipients, First World War (1914-1918)
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 13465
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Current location
Railway Station
In fenced memorial garden in Station Square
Dingwall
Ross And Cromarty
Highland
IV15 9JD
Scotland
OS Grid Ref: NH 55304 58615
Denomination: Undefined
- Previous locations
- On down platform.
Nitshill Railway Station
Nitshill
Glasgow
Strathclyde
Scotland
OS Grid Ref: NS 510 600
Denomination: Undefined
- On down platform.
- Description
- Rough unworked Standing Stone apart from carved relief of a rifle with the muzzle uppermost, and a laurel wreath around the muzzle
- Inscription
- IN/ MEMORY OF/ SERGT JOHN MEIKLE VC MM/ LATE CLERK AT NITSHILL STATION/ WHO ENLISTED IN HM FORCES/ (SEAFORTH HIGHLANDERS) 8TH FEBRUARY, 1915, DURING THE/ GREAT WAR, AND WAS KILLED IN/ ACTION ON 20TH JULY, 1918/ ERECTED BY HIS RAILWAY COMRADES
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Meikle, John
See details - Commemorations
- VC or GC Recipients
Total names on memorial: 1
Served and returned: 0
Died: 1
Exact count: yes
Information shown: surname, rank, date of death, regiment, forename, occupation, additional, decorations
Order of information: Undefined - First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 1
Served and returned: 0
Died: 1
Exact count: yes
Information shown: surname, rank, date of death, regiment, forename, occupation, additional, decorations
Order of information: Undefined
- VC or GC Recipients
- Components
- Stone of remembrance
Measurements: depth 450mm, height 2100mm, width 750mm
Materials: Granite - Red
- Stone of remembrance
- Condition
- Sgt J Meikle VC MM
- WMO ID: 161255
- Condition: Fair [last updated on 22-05-2020]
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- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Sponsorship
- Corporate
- Reference
- The Railway Magazine Jan. 1923 vol. 52 p.35
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